These ratings are based on students' 2016 performance on end-of-year Smarter Balanced English and math tests and, for high schools, class of 2015 graduation rates. Level 5 is the top rating and generally indicates a school performed in the top 10 percent. Level 1 ratings signify the worst of the worst, generally in the bottom 5 percent. Level 2 ratings are also quite low, signifying test performance in the bottom 15 percent and graduation rates below 75 percent. Level 4 ratings are for average and above average test scores and for graduation rates above 78 percent. Level 3 is a middling ranking that extends to test performance as low at the 16th percentile. Growth ratings are based on how much progress a typical student made in reading or math since taking state tests in 2015 and 2014.

2015 Cascade Middle School profile

Cascade Middle School test results

Percentage of students meeting or exceeding standardsClick on a row to see the 9-year trend of scores

School

District

State

Grade 6 reading*

>95%

76%

65%

Grade 6 math*

88%

65%

59%

Grade 7 reading*

>95%

81%

74%

Grade 7 math*

87%

71%

63%

Grade 8 reading*

92%

76%

66%

Grade 8 math*

86%

72%

62%

Grade 8 science*

>95%

79%

65%

*Math standards for grades 3-8 were raised for the 2011 test year; reading standards for grades 3-8 and science standards for all grades were raised for the 2012 test year

2016 Cascade Middle School absentee rate: 17%

Percentage of Cascade Middle School students who missed more than 10 percent of school days during the 2015-2016 school year, below broken down by grade and income level and compared with statewide numbers.